Out of those who found employment, about 92 percent found long-term, full-time jobs.

But the sputtering economy and the cost of law school has taken its toll on other law programs across the country. Declining enrollments have been seen across the board.

“Without question, the depression, which began in the fall of 2008, and the accompanying lack of confidence in the future, have been one of the major causes of the decline and may have been the original precipitating event,” said Susan Prager, executive director of the Association of American Law Schools, in an email.

In 2012, at a time when other law schools were facing larger setbacks in enrollment, the UNC School of Law enrolled 240 students — only 10 fewer than 2011.

Last year was the first time the program had a class smaller than the year before, but Michael States, the law school’s assistant dean for admissions, said he is not concerned.

“Our decline of 10 students isn’t enough to say it was because of X, Y, or Z,” he said.

States said law schools are seeing fewer enrollees because higher tuition and levels of undergraduate debt are causing students to delay pursuing a law degree. And students might not be ensured a job after they graduate.